Don't forget Alligators to now & THEN 😮😮, Hannah seam's to be A TRUE Outdoors girl 🤔🤔 and that's part of what makes her so SPECIAL & LOVED BUY MANY BEAUTIFUL AND DOWN TO EARTH 😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Keep in mind, Hannah is tiny but she also spend like 20-30 hours a week powerlifting in a gym, then spends entire days during the summer doing the noodling, hunting during the colder months. Her entire family has been doing tghis for a long time. The people who tend to drown are those that go out without someone trained to do it and how to rescue someone in trouble. While I grew up in the same state as Hannah and I like being outdoors, I never tried to noodle and I have never been hunting. The only time I have ever fired a gun is shooting skeet with a 12 gauge shotgun.
@@deanfirnatine7814 Nope, up on a mountain, on 160 acres with two creeks and a pond. I just never got into fishing and hunting. I do like camping out, kayaking and walking through the woods. Lots opf friends who love to hunt and fish, just never appealed to me.
In 1969 when I returned from Viet., I came home to my mother's ranch in East Tx. A local dairy owner was running some "trout lines" on the Brazos River with a commercial fisherman for fun. He heard that I was back & invited me to come along. They would run their lines with an alum. flat bottom boat. Off of 1 trout line that day, we caught a 45 & a 60 lbs. catfish. They were so huge that they filled the bottom of the boat & we had to put our feet on top of the fish. We took some photos of both fish along side a 4' chain link fence for size reference. The 45 was 4' & the 60 was longer. Later that week "Joe Mike" drove up to our ranch house in his pick-up truck. In the truck bed was a gar that he had just caught off one of his lines. It was laying a little diagonal in the bed as it was longer than the bed. Fishing on the Brazos, you also have alligators & water moccasins to watch out for.
Heck yeah, big flatheads and alligator gar. Guys have seen 15 foot gar, gar longer than their boats, especially in the Trinity river and of course the old legend of the divers seeing catfish below the dam the size of Volkswagons. An 8 footer is around 300lbs, so you can imagine how big one that massive would be. They're amazing fish, prehistoric. I used to set all kinds of lines every single day when I was obsessed with fishing. Those alligator snapping turtles will even eat your fish off. I've seen some massive ones. I've never done noodling but I used stand out there wade fishing into the early hours in lakes like a fool. Good old days.
I used to fish our stock pond for dinner. I'd string them & stick the spike in the bank. I always then stood with one foot on the spike to keep the fish from pulling away. Periodically they would start thrashing around. I would look down to see either a water moccasin or a turtle chewing on my fish.@@wheelmanstan
Just to give you something to think about. The blue catfish record is almost 65 kg or 143 lbs. so basically, you're wrestling a crazy person under water.👍
Keep in mind Hannah is only about 5 feet tall, she is tiny and doing that. You always want to do it in pairs because they can drown you if you get a hold of a big one, the blues and flatheads (aka yellow cats) can get over 100lbs. My mom grew up noodling on a river known for huge snapping turtles, I am like you in that losing fingers to a turtle is what scares me. They have a noodling tournament every year in Oklahoma. Hannah has some great hunting videos as well.
good thing is that a turtle has to come up for a breath . My Pawpaw said that him and friends would go to the rivers when they found out they would be lowering the river to do work on the power houses that supplied power for the many mills around here . They would find holes in the river and use poles with a hook on the ends to catch fish . He said that large snapping turtles were always on their mind . They realized that most times the turtles would only hide where the water was low enough for the turtle to get a breath without coming out . The large snappers and soft shell turtles were prized and were eaten .
Hannah Baron is a beast and has a great channel. Give new meaning to getting a bite while fishing lol😂 besides snakes, snapping turtles, and muskrats will tear you up
Where my dads family lived in southern missouri it was normal to see the jaws of catfish hanging on posts because the country boys who caught em while noodling would be proud. It was an unspoken rule in the area only fish caught that way can be displayed. The family that lived next to my grandparents house had lived on that land 120 years and that was in the 80s. They still live on it. The uncle of my dad's next door friend drowned because he went noodling while alone and drunk. He got pulled under by a big fish. Going noodlin is like surfing. Never go out alone just in case you need help.
Y'all are to cool. I believe your family would fit right in any southern states for sure. But your choice of Texas is a good one with lots of land and some parts good access to water. Hope you guys enjoy your trip next year.
We live about 30 miles from the Mississippi river on the Illinois side. The Mississippi has many dams on it that have to be inspected regularly. Inspection divers have claimed that below the dams there are catfish at the base of the dams that are large enough to swallow an average man whole. Most of the divers will only dive them only once; and then refuse to ever go back down ever again (scared of the large catfish).
Heard the same stories from the Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas areas. monster blue and flathead cats, they probably like the deep water, same thing in the Northwest with sturgeon, there are absolute beasts in that deep water.
American catfish...Blue, Chanel, Flathead, White, Mudcat. All are edible and one of the most popular farm raised or wild caught fish in America fo food. Catfish layeggs generally around May of each year. The male digs a nest or is provided one by the farmer the size of a milk can (30 liters) and he entices the female to lay her eggs (She can lay around 20,000 eggs per pound of her body weight) The male then guards the eggs until they hatch, providing oxygenation and water movement across the egg mass to keep them alive. The survival rate for catfish fry in the wild is around 1-3% farm raised it can be upwards of 50%. If you don't get to do any hand fishing when you come over t least find a good guide to take you catfishing on one of our southen lakes or rivers for some hefty cats.
In January of 1990, a shipmate and I needed to attend a school in Memphis Tennessee. One night the shipmate went out drinking and made friends with a chef at a restaurant in I think it’s was called Overton Square. He the the shipmate to come in and he would hook us up. Shipmate takes me with him and he tells the waitress to let the chef know that we were there, she comes back 30 seconds later, gathers the menus we the were looking at and says “The Chef says you will be dining on our Blackened Catfish tonight, would you care for any drinks before your dinner is ready?” OMG it was life changing!
If l understand this correctly catfish dens or holes are used to lay eggs and protect them from others fish. Thats why they find two fish alot of times in the same hole their a mating pair.
Freshwater catfish is are one of the tastiest fish to eat. I never caught one as large as these, but admire the fact they released them to further their breeding. ❤
The deal with catfish is they are delicious, problem is after they get about 25+ pounds is they get fat deposits through their meat, and ruins it (for me). Just looses its taste after they get so big. Obviously during the zombie apocalypse I would deal with it. But now I get to be picky. 😊
I love to go catch catfish!! We use poles not our hands. I caught a 56 pound blue cat and he fought me for a while. I hooked another but the fish went under a log and I had ti break the line. I found a great boat to charter at Santee S.C. and I had a great Captain. You pay one price and you get him and his boat with his poles and supplies. This was several years ago and it only costed us about $230.00 for a day. I know it has to be a lot more since gas has went up. You can find deals like this and you don't have to buy/have anything just walk onto the boat. We live in Georgia but I had always wanted to go fish the Santee lake area of South Carolina so I chartered us a trip and we did it again the following year. Our buddy wanted to go and he took his Pontoon boat and we went there for a few days. Filled our freezer and had a huge family fish fry. Catfish lay eggs and April during the full moon was when we caught so many fish. We had so much fun. I'm kinda crazy but I LOVE to clean catfish. I'm also the same kinda woman who digs through the gut pile when we drop a deer off at the butcher. We don't have the space to hang and cut up a deer so we pay someone. The man let's me have livers and hearts out of the gut barrel. I cook these for my dogs. They have not been kept for human consumption so the dogs love them. I'm not a organ eater, just don't like the mineral taste but I cook liver for my family. When we would catch catfish and they would have their egg sac my cats loved that also the dogs. One guy we know wanted the egg sac and he would eat them. I never tried that so I don't know what it tastes like. My Vietnamese neighbors wanted the fish heads and they ate them. We would have a couple hundred pounds of fish and we would always leave the lake and drive straight home. It took us 5 hours to drive home and the fish would on ice and so fresh. We would have family waiting with the big cast iron stew pots full of oil. Even after cooking a hundred pounds of fish we still had plenty to freeze for the year. We got enough fish to pay for our trip plus just all of the fun. We have several big lakes close to us but Santee is just known for big cats (hawgs is another name) . This has brought me so many Great memories. I hope you and your beautiful kids can come over and visit this side of the pond. Sending ❤ from over here to your family. You sound like you would fit in perfect, especially here in the Sounthern part of the States.
I grew up around this part of the country and people who do this routinely. I like yourself, knowing there's not only common Snapping Turtles but some areas has Alligator Snapping Turtles, an altogether larger and more scary species, along with Real Gators and Alligator Gar Fish (There's an "Alligator" theme here). I have seen folks pull out big Turtles and once a large Water Dog (*), which to this day is the only time I've seen one. (*)- A Water Dog is a colloquial name given to a Large Aquatic Salamander commonly called a "Hellbender", they are found in Kentucky's waters and areas south, because of their secretive nature populations are hard to judge but is considered a threatened species.
If your little girl is a space nerd, she'll fit in well in Texas. Not only do we have NASA headquarters in Houston, we also have SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica, near Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast. You guys should do a video on Starbase, what they have going on there is just amazing.
In places in Tennessee we have always called grabbling. Hope you and your family have a great time when you go and get to do many of the things you're wanting to.
They do eat them every now and then. In the south Catfish is sold in most restaurants and grocery stores. Almost every state has them here. I have seen channel cats as big as Leah (sp?). Oh, and the fins (dorsal spine) are slightly poisonous.
About 30 years ago at Lawrence, Kansas, at the Kansas River Hydroelectric dam a man got a hold of a 100 pound+ Blue cat and it drowned him. He went under to get it and only came up after he died. Noodling isn't for the faint of heart. The big one's can drown you if you aren't real careful. Also, catfish have very sharp spines on their fins and will stab you with them, the bigger the catfish the bigger the spines. The species of catfish here are, Bullhead, Channel cat, Blue cats, Yellow cats, Flat head cats and a couple more I can't recalled just now.
Other than species mentioned that may inhabit the hole, consider that anywhere in the south there is water there may also be an alligator. We're a sub-tropical zone so if the water warm enough gators will go there.
I noticed in the video u said u wanted a boat, some land and a pickup truck . You would definitely fit in with us folk down here in Texas, lol. I think u will love Texas when u come down here to visit. Just don't come in the summer 'cause the heat is ruthless!
They have fishing contests for noodling in Arkansas and Oklahoma. I would never do it because I've caught loggerheads in the same types of underwater coverage that you would be able to catch a large catfish. And, losing fingers is not on my list of things I want to do.
Laying eggs is why they go in the holes. And they stay in the hole to protect the eggs. Blue, channel and Flathead are the three man type they are after.
Theyre actually tagging them….Because the Male Catfish attract Female Catfish by Finding a hole….. Then it’s the Male Catfish Responsibility to Watch the eggs in the hole.
I wouldn't mind getting chewed on a bit by a fish, but you never know what's in that hole. Could be a big Snapping Turtle, or a Water Moccasin/Cottonmouth snake.
I live in North West Alabama, near Florence and close to Wilson dam, when divers check the base of the dam they say there are channel Cats there the size of compact cars, true Monsters
Never would do anything like that, but I've been cat fishing on numerous occasions. If you're not careful how you handle them, their spikes on the dorsal and pectoral fins could go right through your hand.
Noodling is common in the southern states and Texas and Oklahoma, Im an Okie myself and there is an annual Noodling contest in Guthrie Oklahoma. You should check it out!
AR/OK area, but I also have a thick accent. 😂 I have trained myself to speak more "flat" to avoid some of the rude, hateful comments people make, but it's exhausting to focus on every word all day long. Before I tried to speak w/o my accent I had a lady ask me, "do you have anyone there that speaks English and not HeeHaw or Hick I don't have time to deal with an inbred today" after I nearly bit my tongue off to keep from telling her exactly what I thought I decided it was easier to just try to speak with less of an accent. 🤷♀️
The dangers are those barbs or whiskers. They can stiffen on reflex and seem to be as hard as nails when they do tense them up. They also have these tiny teeth that if they get a bite around your arm and they can spin their body it will about cut off your what that mouth is wrapped around. Seen a guy reach in to get a blue cat out of the water on his line and the fish stiffened its barbs and it went straight thru his hand and was sticking out the other side. He still caught the fish lol.
those blue catfish are mean as hell, thats probably why they wore gloves and sleeves. the brownish one she said was "cute" was a flathead catfish, they don't tear you up as bad
We also have a HUGE catfish called Flatheads. In some rivers then can get over 80 pounds. Another note....The big cats are usually not as good to eat as the ones in the 5 pound range.
plus the older catfish lay more eggs thus provide more of the next generation. So for conservation it is better to let them be aside from a little wrasslin. A small younger fish could be eaten. Hunters of deer, say, also are usually not allowed to shoot the older males or females, just surplus deer.
Blue, channel, yellow, Appaloosa, mud catfish were the only ones we had on East Texas. Mud catfish aren’t very good to eat. Big ones aren’t very good compared to 5-10 pound ones. We used to catch babies and put them in stock tacks(ponds we made). Then in a couple years, set a cane pole out and catch fresh dinner. My grandmother would soak mud catfish in fresh milk for a day to make it edible. When we were your daughter’s size, we weren’t allowed to swim in the rivers, because of gar and gators.
You said you wondered if they ate the fish. . usually by the time a catfish has lived long enough to get that big, it's picked up a bunch of worm like parasites. Catfish is a really great tasting fish, but the big ones can be something of a crap shoot! We usually throw the big guys back. If you want to eat em, go for the fish that are 1 - 2 lbs.
sometimes catfish can get to be several hundred pounds and out weigh the noodler, I have heard catfish can get bigger that a Volkswagen, so they can clamp onto to your arm and pull you down with them
Catfish are dinosaurs. Nothing they do hurts them, with exception to potential gill plate pressure that could stretch them. It's the equivalent to you pulling a muscle, and recovers just fine.
In our local rivers, there are catfish large enough to, actually, swallow a whole human being. ( I live in Kentucky, by the way.) While I don't know of it, actually, happening, I know that it's possible. In the river that I live close to, people have drowned and were never found.
Catfish have long sharp bones in their fins on their backs and flippers and they will stab you pretty bad when they are thrashing around. Sometimes you can get an infection from it but not usually. They eat some but let some go so they can keep breeding and I think there is size limit you can't keep.
You need to see Hannon Barron's workout video. Never seen someone so small in stature bench and squat so damn much weight. By the way, this is southern Alabama I believe.
Hannah and her dad Jeff are here in alabama. You should contact her and tell her you are coming to alabama. She would love to take yall noodling.
Yes please do it! That would be an amazing video with your family :)
That would be a great collaboration, can't wait to see it happen.
Yes and you could visit Cog Hill since I know you watch them
Tuscaloosa here
My only fear on noodling would be an alligator snapping turtle. They're huge and vicious. LOL
Hannah and her father, also Hog Hunt ,and Deer Hunt they are the real deal.
I watched some of her videos today, they are living the life of my dreams, and they seem like such nice people
Don't forget Alligators to now & THEN 😮😮, Hannah seam's to be A TRUE Outdoors girl 🤔🤔 and that's part of what makes her so SPECIAL & LOVED BUY MANY BEAUTIFUL AND DOWN TO EARTH 😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Keep in mind, Hannah is tiny but she also spend like 20-30 hours a week powerlifting in a gym, then spends entire days during the summer doing the noodling, hunting during the colder months. Her entire family has been doing tghis for a long time. The people who tend to drown are those that go out without someone trained to do it and how to rescue someone in trouble. While I grew up in the same state as Hannah and I like being outdoors, I never tried to noodle and I have never been hunting. The only time I have ever fired a gun is shooting skeet with a 12 gauge shotgun.
Yea tiny maybe but can squat and deadlift a small pick up truck!😂😂
Did you grow up in the city?
@@deanfirnatine7814 Nope, up on a mountain, on 160 acres with two creeks and a pond. I just never got into fishing and hunting. I do like camping out, kayaking and walking through the woods. Lots opf friends who love to hunt and fish, just never appealed to me.
In 1969 when I returned from Viet., I came home to my mother's ranch in East Tx. A local dairy owner was running some "trout lines" on the Brazos River with a commercial fisherman for fun. He heard that I was back & invited me to come along. They would run their lines with an alum. flat bottom boat. Off of 1 trout line that day, we caught a 45 & a 60 lbs. catfish. They were so huge that they filled the bottom of the boat & we had to put our feet on top of the fish. We took some photos of both fish along side a 4' chain link fence for size reference. The 45 was 4' & the 60 was longer. Later that week "Joe Mike" drove up to our ranch house in his pick-up truck. In the truck bed was a gar that he had just caught off one of his lines. It was laying a little diagonal in the bed as it was longer than the bed. Fishing on the Brazos, you also have alligators & water moccasins to watch out for.
Heck yeah, big flatheads and alligator gar. Guys have seen 15 foot gar, gar longer than their boats, especially in the Trinity river and of course the old legend of the divers seeing catfish below the dam the size of Volkswagons. An 8 footer is around 300lbs, so you can imagine how big one that massive would be. They're amazing fish, prehistoric. I used to set all kinds of lines every single day when I was obsessed with fishing. Those alligator snapping turtles will even eat your fish off. I've seen some massive ones. I've never done noodling but I used stand out there wade fishing into the early hours in lakes like a fool. Good old days.
I used to fish our stock pond for dinner. I'd string them & stick the spike in the bank. I always then stood with one foot on the spike to keep the fish from pulling away. Periodically they would start thrashing around. I would look down to see either a water moccasin or a turtle chewing on my fish.@@wheelmanstan
Alligator gar right?
Right.@@deanfirnatine7814
Yellow catfish too
The trick is to make sure the tunnel or cavity is completely underwater. So no snakes or turtles in those holes
Just to give you something to think about. The blue catfish record is almost 65 kg or 143 lbs. so basically, you're wrestling a crazy person under water.👍
Keep in mind Hannah is only about 5 feet tall, she is tiny and doing that. You always want to do it in pairs because they can drown you if you get a hold of a big one, the blues and flatheads (aka yellow cats) can get over 100lbs. My mom grew up noodling on a river known for huge snapping turtles, I am like you in that losing fingers to a turtle is what scares me. They have a noodling tournament every year in Oklahoma. Hannah has some great hunting videos as well.
good thing is that a turtle has to come up for a breath . My Pawpaw said that him and friends would go to the rivers when they found out they would be lowering the river to do work on the power houses that supplied power for the many mills around here . They would find holes in the river and use poles with a hook on the ends to catch fish . He said that large snapping turtles were always on their mind . They realized that most times the turtles would only hide where the water was low enough for the turtle to get a breath without coming out . The large snappers and soft shell turtles were prized and were eaten .
Yep, my mom's family regularly ate the big snapping turtles
Your daughter & you are so sweet together
Hannah Baron is a beast and has a great channel. Give new meaning to getting a bite while fishing lol😂 besides snakes, snapping turtles, and muskrats will tear you up
The process of catching maybe harrowing but the results you get in the form of fresh fried Catfish is *chef kiss*
When little Hannah is really on it, she giggles like a chipmonk. Snappers will take a toe or finger!!!!
Where my dads family lived in southern missouri it was normal to see the jaws of catfish hanging on posts because the country boys who caught em while noodling would be proud. It was an unspoken rule in the area only fish caught that way can be displayed. The family that lived next to my grandparents house had lived on that land 120 years and that was in the 80s. They still live on it. The uncle of my dad's next door friend drowned because he went noodling while alone and drunk. He got pulled under by a big fish. Going noodlin is like surfing. Never go out alone just in case you need help.
13:16 That she gave you when you said she’d be doing that if she’d grew up there!😂😂😂
When Hannah asks her dad if the catfish was stabbing him, she's referring to the spurs catfish have behind each dorsal fin.
I used to catch catfish when I was a kid. But they were smaller and I used a fishing pole.
The look she gave you at (13:15) was priceless!!! I had to go back and rewatch the rest because I was laughing so hard I missed it!!
Y'all are to cool. I believe your family would fit right in any southern states for sure. But your choice of Texas is a good one with lots of land and some parts good access to water. Hope you guys enjoy your trip next year.
Thank you very much, we are so excited for our trip
@@synical13 just be respectful and everything is fine.......its not california so its safer than most states
Agreed! We Texans would love to have you!
Fried catfish is delicious!!!!
We live about 30 miles from the Mississippi river on the Illinois side. The Mississippi has many dams on it that have to be inspected regularly. Inspection divers have claimed that below the dams there are catfish at the base of the dams that are large enough to swallow an average man whole. Most of the divers will only dive them only once; and then refuse to ever go back down ever again (scared of the large catfish).
Heard the same stories from the Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas areas. monster blue and flathead cats, they probably like the deep water, same thing in the Northwest with sturgeon, there are absolute beasts in that deep water.
American catfish...Blue, Chanel, Flathead, White, Mudcat. All are edible and one of the most popular farm raised or wild caught fish in America fo food. Catfish layeggs generally around May of each year. The male digs a nest or is provided one by the farmer the size of a milk can (30 liters) and he entices the female to lay her eggs (She can lay around 20,000 eggs per pound of her body weight) The male then guards the eggs until they hatch, providing oxygenation and water movement across the egg mass to keep them alive. The survival rate for catfish fry in the wild is around 1-3% farm raised it can be upwards of 50%. If you don't get to do any hand fishing when you come over t least find a good guide to take you catfishing on one of our southen lakes or rivers for some hefty cats.
There used to be a show on tv called Hillbilly Hand Fishin. It was quite entertaining!
In January of 1990, a shipmate and I needed to attend a school in Memphis Tennessee. One night the shipmate went out drinking and made friends with a chef at a restaurant in I think it’s was called Overton Square. He the the shipmate to come in and he would hook us up. Shipmate takes me with him and he tells the waitress to let the chef know that we were there, she comes back 30 seconds later, gathers the menus we the were looking at and says “The Chef says you will be dining on our Blackened Catfish tonight, would you care for any drinks before your dinner is ready?” OMG it was life changing!
When you visit, make sure you get some shore side catfish fritters, the very freshest, and great eating!
At Pickstown Dam, South Dakota, USA workers were diving under water to do dam inspections and came across 6 foot long catfish. Scared them to death.
If l understand this correctly catfish dens or holes are used to lay eggs and protect them from others fish. Thats why they find two fish alot of times in the same hole their a mating pair.
Hannah also does some weighlifting for the various things she does, this and work on the farm.
The one he let go, is about the largest they can be while still being edible. Any bigger and they mostly just taste like mud.
I’m some areas it’s not the catfish but the gators that come up behind ya!😂
Freshwater catfish is are one of the tastiest fish to eat. I never caught one as large as these, but admire the fact they released them to further their breeding. ❤
I miss boat that was a flat head that I was thinking of. Blue, catfish, channel, catfish, and flathead, catfish
The deal with catfish is they are delicious, problem is after they get about 25+ pounds is they get fat deposits through their meat, and ruins it (for me). Just looses its taste after they get so big.
Obviously during the zombie apocalypse I would deal with it. But now I get to be picky. 😊
13:16 I love the “do what?” look she gives you. 👍🏼
The fish eggs are called roe and are often scrambled and eaten with chicken eggs.
I love to go catch catfish!! We use poles not our hands. I caught a 56 pound blue cat and he fought me for a while. I hooked another but the fish went under a log and I had ti break the line. I found a great boat to charter at Santee S.C. and I had a great Captain. You pay one price and you get him and his boat with his poles and supplies. This was several years ago and it only costed us about $230.00 for a day. I know it has to be a lot more since gas has went up. You can find deals like this and you don't have to buy/have anything just walk onto the boat. We live in Georgia but I had always wanted to go fish the Santee lake area of South Carolina so I chartered us a trip and we did it again the following year. Our buddy wanted to go and he took his Pontoon boat and we went there for a few days. Filled our freezer and had a huge family fish fry. Catfish lay eggs and April during the full moon was when we caught so many fish. We had so much fun. I'm kinda crazy but I LOVE to clean catfish. I'm also the same kinda woman who digs through the gut pile when we drop a deer off at the butcher. We don't have the space to hang and cut up a deer so we pay someone. The man let's me have livers and hearts out of the gut barrel. I cook these for my dogs. They have not been kept for human consumption so the dogs love them. I'm not a organ eater, just don't like the mineral taste but I cook liver for my family. When we would catch catfish and they would have their egg sac my cats loved that also the dogs. One guy we know wanted the egg sac and he would eat them. I never tried that so I don't know what it tastes like. My Vietnamese neighbors wanted the fish heads and they ate them. We would have a couple hundred pounds of fish and we would always leave the lake and drive straight home. It took us 5 hours to drive home and the fish would on ice and so fresh. We would have family waiting with the big cast iron stew pots full of oil. Even after cooking a hundred pounds of fish we still had plenty to freeze for the year. We got enough fish to pay for our trip plus just all of the fun. We have several big lakes close to us but Santee is just known for big cats (hawgs is another name) . This has brought me so many Great memories. I hope you and your beautiful kids can come over and visit this side of the pond. Sending ❤ from over here to your family. You sound like you would fit in perfect, especially here in the Sounthern part of the States.
Noodling, Spelunking and Skydiving three things I will never do!
In Arkansas we have Blue, and albino channel cats. Flat head cats yellow cats and spoonbill cats
I grew up around this part of the country and people who do this routinely. I like yourself, knowing there's not only common Snapping Turtles but some areas has Alligator Snapping Turtles, an altogether larger and more scary species, along with Real Gators and Alligator Gar Fish (There's an "Alligator" theme here). I have seen folks pull out big Turtles and once a large Water Dog (*), which to this day is the only time I've seen one. (*)- A Water Dog is a colloquial name given to a Large Aquatic Salamander commonly called a "Hellbender", they are found in Kentucky's waters and areas south, because of their secretive nature populations are hard to judge but is considered a threatened species.
Ya not many Hellbenders around
If your little girl is a space nerd, she'll fit in well in Texas. Not only do we have NASA headquarters in Houston, we also have SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica, near Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast. You guys should do a video on Starbase, what they have going on there is just amazing.
Also the big NASA center in Huntsville Alabama, they have a bunch tourist stuff around that
@@deanfirnatine7814 Yeah, but they're going to be a long, long way from Huntsville, lol.
There is a TV show called river monsters and in one episode they noodle a wels catfish in Spain
In places in Tennessee we have always called grabbling. Hope you and your family have a great time when you go and get to do many of the things you're wanting to.
Yup, Jeff Baron suffered the detatched tendon while he was noodling.
A lot of people do that. It's a thing over there. I think they even have tournaments.
They do eat them every now and then. In the south Catfish is sold in most restaurants and grocery stores. Almost every state has them here. I have seen channel cats as big as Leah (sp?). Oh, and the fins (dorsal spine) are slightly poisonous.
About 30 years ago at Lawrence, Kansas, at the Kansas River Hydroelectric dam a man got a hold of a 100 pound+ Blue cat and it drowned him. He went under to get it and only came up after he died. Noodling isn't for the faint of heart. The big one's can drown you if you aren't real careful. Also, catfish have very sharp spines on their fins and will stab you with them, the bigger the catfish the bigger the spines. The species of catfish here are, Bullhead, Channel cat, Blue cats, Yellow cats, Flat head cats and a couple more I can't recalled just now.
Other than species mentioned that may inhabit the hole, consider that anywhere in the south there is water there may also be an alligator. We're a sub-tropical zone so if the water warm enough gators will go there.
Her Dad, Jeff, just had that arm repaired from a bad break.
The two best days of your life, the day you get your boat, and the day you get rid of your boat.
I noticed in the video u said u wanted a boat, some land and a pickup truck . You would definitely fit in with us folk down here in Texas, lol. I think u will love Texas when u come down here to visit. Just don't come in the summer 'cause the heat is ruthless!
Hanna is awsome they take people on noodlin trips here in alabama u should look her up if u come to the states
They have fishing contests for noodling in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
I would never do it because I've caught loggerheads in the same types of underwater coverage that you would be able to catch a large catfish.
And, losing fingers is not on my list of things I want to do.
"Flathead" is the other type of large US catfish you were trying to remember. Peace, Love!! (you remembered before the end)
Gaters, snapping turtles and snakes😮😂😂😂😂😂
Laying eggs is why they go in the holes. And they stay in the hole to protect the eggs. Blue, channel and Flathead are the three man type they are after.
The two species they catch are blue catfish and flathead catfish. Yes they lay a large clump of eggs. 9:29
Farm raised catfish is clean and tastes great. I know a man who did noodling. I have been chased by a snapping turtle.
She has a home gym and she also works out regularly also so she’s stronger than heck
Theyre actually tagging them….Because the Male Catfish attract Female Catfish by Finding a hole…..
Then it’s the Male Catfish Responsibility to Watch the eggs in the hole.
I wouldn't mind getting chewed on a bit by a fish, but you never know what's in that hole. Could be a big Snapping Turtle, or a Water Moccasin/Cottonmouth snake.
I live in North West Alabama, near Florence and close to Wilson dam, when divers check the base of the dam they say there are channel Cats there the size of compact cars, true Monsters
Never would do anything like that, but I've been cat fishing on numerous occasions. If you're not careful how you handle them, their spikes on the dorsal and pectoral fins could go right through your hand.
Ya, I have been stuck and its no fun.
Noodling is common in the southern states and Texas and Oklahoma, Im an Okie myself and there is an annual Noodling contest in Guthrie Oklahoma. You should check it out!
An old girl friend was from Guthrie. Really miss that girl.
The turtles usually stay on the surface sunning itself, the blue catfishare the mean ones.. Channel, blue, and shovel head
Get a taste of the southern accent that Hannah has. It is as "thick as molasses".
I'm from Georgia and I have that accent too!!
South Alabama
AR/OK area, but I also have a thick accent. 😂 I have trained myself to speak more "flat" to avoid some of the rude, hateful comments people make, but it's exhausting to focus on every word all day long. Before I tried to speak w/o my accent I had a lady ask me, "do you have anyone there that speaks English and not HeeHaw or Hick I don't have time to deal with an inbred today" after I nearly bit my tongue off to keep from telling her exactly what I thought I decided it was easier to just try to speak with less of an accent. 🤷♀️
There are noodling competitions in the United States. Maybe you can find some videos on that.
Blue Cat and Channel Cat are the same. There are also Yellow Cats and the huge Opelousas Cats also called “Flatheads”.
Blue catfish and channel catfish are not the same. 😊
The dangers are those barbs or whiskers. They can stiffen on reflex and seem to be as hard as nails when they do tense them up. They also have these tiny teeth that if they get a bite around your arm and they can spin their body it will about cut off your what that mouth is wrapped around.
Seen a guy reach in to get a blue cat out of the water on his line and the fish stiffened its barbs and it went straight thru his hand and was sticking out the other side.
He still caught the fish lol.
those blue catfish are mean as hell, thats probably why they wore gloves and sleeves. the brownish one she said was "cute" was a flathead catfish, they don't tear you up as bad
We also have a HUGE catfish called Flatheads. In some rivers then can get over 80 pounds. Another note....The big cats are usually not as good to eat as the ones in the 5 pound range.
plus the older catfish lay more eggs thus provide more of the next generation. So for conservation it is better to let them be aside from a little wrasslin. A small younger fish could be eaten. Hunters of deer, say, also are usually not allowed to shoot the older males or females, just surplus deer.
Blue, channel, yellow, Appaloosa, mud catfish were the only ones we had on East Texas. Mud catfish aren’t very good to eat. Big ones aren’t very good compared to 5-10 pound ones. We used to catch babies and put them in stock tacks(ponds we made). Then in a couple years, set a cane pole out and catch fresh dinner. My grandmother would soak mud catfish in fresh milk for a day to make it edible. When we were your daughter’s size, we weren’t allowed to swim in the rivers, because of gar and gators.
Yellow is called flathead in other areas and I am guessing "mud catfish" are bullheads
I'd have to get really hungry before I attempt that.
At the mansion alligators, and some places!
You said you wondered if they ate the fish. . usually by the time a catfish has lived long enough to get that big, it's picked up a bunch of worm like parasites. Catfish is a really great tasting fish, but the big ones can be something of a crap shoot! We usually throw the big guys back. If you want to eat em, go for the fish that are 1 - 2 lbs.
sometimes catfish can get to be several hundred pounds and out weigh the noodler, I have heard catfish can get bigger that a Volkswagen, so they can clamp onto to your arm and pull you down with them
Remember, in louisiana there are also alligators in the waters
Catfish are dinosaurs. Nothing they do hurts them, with exception to potential gill plate pressure that could stretch them. It's the equivalent to you pulling a muscle, and recovers just fine.
the three cats that the go for are blue, channel and the flathead
Fella, come to Minnesota. We have lakes and boats and pickup trucks to spare. :) Bring your family!
We are trying to make it as long of a trip as we can manage financially, I'd love to do an epic road trip
They usually tag them and let them go.
Noodlin is well known in southern Alabama.
In our local rivers, there are catfish large enough to, actually, swallow a whole human being. ( I live in Kentucky, by the way.) While I don't know of it, actually, happening, I know that it's possible. In the river that I live close to, people have drowned and were never found.
You will love Texas.
With house and pond. get Truck, boat, Whinchester, and the hat that matches you.
Now you talking my language.
This is so good, the Barrons going global is for the good of the world❤
Catfish have long sharp bones in their fins on their backs and flippers and they will stab you pretty bad when they are thrashing around. Sometimes you can get an infection from it but not usually. They eat some but let some go so they can keep breeding and I think there is size limit you can't keep.
Met a champion Noodler 30 yrs ago, dude was scared all the way up his arms.....snake, turtle bites.........nope no way!
a good-sized snapper can easily take your hand off.
My son catches snapping turtle's by feeling the muddy bottom of ponds with his feet. He's very good at it and still has all his toes.
Holy smokes, brave and skilled. That would freak me out
Its hard to fish out a 47 lber with a hook when the catfish is in a whole in the mud bank.
Guys, if you get into the southern U.S.A. you have to try fried catfish
FRESH Catfish is the BEST fish I've ever had!
It depends on the bred if it live birth or eggs.
Colonial Americans learned this technique from the Muscogee (Creek Indians).
Yes, they lay eggs, and lots of them(up to 100,000).
You need to see Hannon Barron's workout video. Never seen someone so small in stature bench and squat so damn much weight.
By the way, this is southern Alabama I believe.
You should find the video of the 65ld she caught 😅
Channel , Blues and Flatheads are the large ones ! Many other kinds of the smaller variety .
Her dad fell a few months ago and broke his back and neck and he is recovering now.
Snappin turtles ain’t so bad. It’s the alligator snappin turtles you gotta worry about. They bite like a pair of bolt cutters!
And the Cat-a-pillar